Hatching Ruin", Or Mark Twain's Road To Bankruptcy (Mark Twain And His Circle Series)

In "Hatching Ruin," Charles H. Gold provides a complete description of Samuel L. Clemens's business relationships with Charles L. Webster and James W. Paige during the 1880s. Gold analyzes how these relationships affected Clemens as a person and an artist, most notably in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and tells for the first time the full story of Clemens's experiences as an investor, employer, and entrepreneur during the Gilded Age.